Editing London Underground (section)

===Map===
{{Main|Tube map}}
[[File:Composite Beck and 2012 tube map.png|thumb|The left side shows the 1933 Beck map and the right side the map in 2012.]]
[[File:Tube map 1908-2.jpg|thumb|1908 map of the Underground overlaid on a city map]]
Early maps of the Metropolitan and District railways were city maps with the lines superimposed,{{sfnp|Ovenden|2013|pp=21, 28–30}} and the District published a pocket map in 1897.{{sfnp|Ovenden|2013|p=51}} A Central London Railway route diagram appears on a 1904 postcard and 1905 poster,{{sfnp|Ovenden|2013|pp=52–53, 56}} similar maps appearing in District Railway cars in 1908.{{sfnp|Ovenden|2013|p=93}} In the same year, following a marketing agreement between the operators, a joint central area map that included all the lines was published.{{sfnp|Ovenden|2013|p=91}} A new map was published in 1921 without any background details, but the central area was squashed, requiring smaller letters and arrows.{{sfnp|Ovenden|2013|p=142}} Although Fred H. Stingemore enlarged the central area of the map, it was [[Harry Beck]] who took this further by distorting geography and simplifying the map so that the railways appeared as straight lines with equally spaced stations.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kent|first=Alexander J.|date=1 February 2021|title=When Topology Trumped Topography: Celebrating 90 Years of Beck's Underground Map|journal=The Cartographic Journal|volume=58|issue=1 |pages=1–12|doi=10.1080/00087041.2021.1953765|bibcode=2021CartJ..58....1K |s2cid=236970579|doi-access=free}}</ref> He presented his original draft in 1931, and after initial rejection it was first printed in 1933. Today's tube map is an evolution of that original design, and the ideas are used by many metro systems around the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=Design Classics: Harry Beck |publisher=Transport for London |url=http://origin.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/2443.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316055307/http://origin.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/2443.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 March 2011 |access-date=27 March 2014 }}</ref>{{sfnp|Ovenden|2013|pp=152–153, 168–169}}

The current standard Tube map shows the Docklands Light Railway, London Overground, [[London cable car|IFS Cloud Cable Car]], London Tramlink and the London Underground;<ref name="standard tube map">{{cite web |url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/standard-tube-map.pdf |title=Standard Tube Map |publisher=Transport for London |date=December 2013 |access-date=26 March 2014 |archive-date=26 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926115642/https://tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/standard-tube-map.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> a more detailed map covering a larger area, published by National Rail and Transport for London, includes suburban railway services.<ref name="Rail&TubeMap" /> The tube map came second in a BBC and London Transport Museum poll asking for a favourite UK design icon of the 20th century<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/static/corporate/media/newscentre/archive/3649.html |title=Tube map voted a UK design icon |publisher=Transport for London |date=3 March 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627175516/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/static/corporate/media/newscentre/archive/3649.html |archive-date=27 June 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the underground's 150th anniversary was celebrated by a [[Google Doodle]] on the search engine.<ref name="guardian doodle 2013">{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Matt |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/09/london-underground-google-doodle |title=London underground's 150th birthday celebrated in Google doodle |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=9 January 2013 |access-date=9 January 2013 |archive-date=10 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510042700/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/09/london-underground-google-doodle |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="londonist brown 2013">{{cite news |url=http://londonist.com/2013/01/google-doodle-marks-150-years-of-the-london-underground.php |title=Google Doodle Marks 150 Years Of The London Underground |newspaper=[[Londonist]] |date=9 January 2013 |access-date=9 January 2013 |archive-date=14 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114150614/http://londonist.com/2013/01/google-doodle-marks-150-years-of-the-london-underground.php |url-status=live }}</ref>

Commissioned by [[Art on the Underground]], the [[List of Art on the Underground Tube map covers|cover of the pocket map]] is designed by various British and international artists, one of the largest public art commissions in the UK.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2 May 2014|title=Ten years of artists' tube map covers – in pictures|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/may/02/tube-map-covers-rachel-whiteread-david-shrigley-pictures|access-date=23 March 2021|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510095115/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/may/02/tube-map-covers-rachel-whiteread-david-shrigley-pictures|url-status=live}}</ref>